Scilab description
Last update : 12/1/2004

pvm - communications with other applications using Parallel Virutal Machine

### Description

is a software system that enables a collection of heterogeneous computers to be used as a coherent and flexible concurrent computational resource.

The individual computers may be shared- or local-memory multiprocessors, vector supercomputers, specialized graphics engines, or scalar workstations, that may be interconnected by a variety of networks, such as ethernet, FDDI.

Daemon programs (`pvmd3`) provide communication and process control between computers (see PVM manpage and manual for more details).

Most important functions of the PVM communication library are included in Scilab.

### Warning

PVM must be installed in your envriromnent before using it in Scilab. PVM scilab have been developped using the version 3.3.7 of the PVM library.

### See Also

`pvm_barrier`, `pvm_mytid`, `pvm_bcast`, `pvm_parent`, `pvm_config`, `pvm_delhosts`, `pvm_recv`, `pvm_exit`, `pvm_send`, `pvm_getinst`, `pvm_spawn`, `pvm_gettid`, `pvm_spawn_independent`, `pvm_gsize`, `pvm_tasks`, `pvm_joingroup`, `pvm_tidtohost`, `pvm_kill`, `pvm_lvgroup`, `pvm_start`, `pvm_halt`,

### Author

PVM have been developped by A. L. Beguelin, J. J. Dongarra, G. A. Geist, W. C. Jiang, R. J. Manchek, B. K. Moore, V. S. Sunderam (see http://www.netlib.org/pvm3)